Customer reviews from Garmin
Garmin - Enduro 3 Solar GPS Smartwatch 51mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - Carbon Gray DLC titanium - (2024)
Average customer rating
4.8
(189 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 189 reviews
5 Stars
163
4 Stars
13
3 Stars
8
2 Stars
3
1 Star
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Customer Reviews for Garmin - Enduro 3 Solar GPS Smartwatch 51mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - Carbon Gray DLC titanium - (2024)
Customer Rating
5
Never going back to Apple…amazing!
on December 20, 2024
Posted by: JeremyB
I have had two Apple Watches and while the features are great, the battery life was horrible. I love the enduro 3. Have had it two weeks wearing it 24/7 only to take off while in the shower and I am still at 48% battery. The watch syncs well to the iPhone, I get notifications but the workout tracking and sleep tracking is amazing. The first day, I did a strength training workout. Selected strength and started. Heart rate tracking was great, love you can track sets. The greatest part, after the workout, the watch could tell I did bench and synced to the garmin connect to show all the sets, targeted muscle groups and how long to recover. Also, sleep tracking and garmin coach…so many features to talk about. If you are on the fence, don’t be.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Love the Enduro 3
on December 24, 2024
Posted by: Icravelife
This watch rocks. Wish was Amoled - I'm sure Garmin will figure that challenge out.
Battery life is insane.
Battery life is insane.
I wear all day. At the gym. On my runs. And to work. Classy look.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
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Customer Rating
5
Great watch . Battery is great !
on January 3, 2025
Posted by: Jpate48
Had watch for 3 weeks, tough, durable good battery life. Not crazy about the watch band but that’s an easy fix .
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
4
Great if it’s a first Garmin watch
on January 6, 2025
Posted by: rdbmsa
Great GPS watch and has pretty much everything for training.
Long battery life is a joke - it runs on one charge for about 16 days with every day 1-2 hours of GPS use, which is just 2 days longer than 3 years old fenix 7. So if you already have not too old fenix doesn’t make sense to switch
Long battery life is a joke - it runs on one charge for about 16 days with every day 1-2 hours of GPS use, which is just 2 days longer than 3 years old fenix 7. So if you already have not too old fenix doesn’t make sense to switch
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Switched from Apple Watch -- wow!
on January 8, 2025
Posted by: Andy216
As an Apple Watch user since nearly the original release, I realized I was paying enough monthly fees to get the Apple Watch to give me the kind of insights and features that come free with the Garmin to justify exploring whether it makes sense to cancel all of them and make the switch.
I didn't realize how much more motivating the Garmin infrastructure would be to drive my fitness to new heights.
I valued getting phone notifications on my wrist with the Apple Watch, but I rarely took actions on the watch. It usually served as a reason to ignore the buzzing phone or to grab the phone and take action. In this use case, the Garmin shines and even basic interactions like responding "OK" or "Yes"/"No" to a text have been fine. Apple Watch has a more robust app store, for sure, but with the built-in functionality of the Garmin watch, I don't really miss it.
The insights I get from the Garmin are far superior than what I had cobbled together with several subscription apps. The Garmin Morning Report feels indispensable. The ability to set cardio training based on specific races coming up has been great and pushed me to train differently -- and resulted in a personal best effort in my latest race.
Battery life is insane. I'm doing a LOT of activities and it looks like about 3+ weeks between charges will be the norm.
I did a lab test for VO2 Max, heart rate zones, etc. The Garmin was within a small rounding error vs the lab studies. The lab tech geeked out with me comparing the two, and he said he is going to consider swapping his Apple Watch Ultra 2 for a Garmin after seeing how they stacked up.
The only disappointment is the strength training interface. I'm still using my Fitbod app -- the only app I continue to subscribe to that I had hoped to replace. Hopefully Garmin will make an acquisition and elevate this tracking in the future.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Excellent watch! Upgraded from original Enduro
on January 8, 2025
Posted by: CharlesCandles
Excellent watch! Upgraded from original Enduro
Running Umstead100 in April, looking forward to use all the capabilities during training and at the event.
Running Umstead100 in April, looking forward to use all the capabilities during training and at the event.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
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Customer Rating
1
BATTERY DOES NOT READ ACCURATELY ENDURO3
on January 8, 2025
Posted by: LIMEJUICE
This started back in August around my birthday when the Enduro 3 was coming out. I was happy to upgrade from my fenix7 sapphire after the amazing experience I had. I was telling my father about all the features and especially the extensive battery performance. OR SO I thought.
Come Christmas and my father surprises with the Enduro 3 and I was so amazed with it out of the box. I put it on my wrist and see it reads 27d battery. I immediately begin to start telling my friends about how cool this is and show my father as he has the fore runner. By Jan 1 the battery read 6d and I immediately felt something was off. I email Garmin support and and per there instructions “update the maps and charge it to 100 and see the reading on battery.” I felt a little it was a little bizarre to update maps for a battery issue but I did it anyways and on the day the maps update was installed the battery was charged to 100% or 35d, on Jan 3rd. Fast forward to today Jan 8 the battery life is 11D it’s steadily losing 4 days in a single day and it’s all factory settings and pulse ox is not on all the time. Not to mention I don’t even wear it during work so it’s off for 8 hours a day… I’m extremely Disappointed over anything. I would just want to exchange this watch because I believe it’s this watch and not the product that’s is failing. Please reach out. I’m already in contact with support you can see the reference number ID per the email I’m using here.
Come Christmas and my father surprises with the Enduro 3 and I was so amazed with it out of the box. I put it on my wrist and see it reads 27d battery. I immediately begin to start telling my friends about how cool this is and show my father as he has the fore runner. By Jan 1 the battery read 6d and I immediately felt something was off. I email Garmin support and and per there instructions “update the maps and charge it to 100 and see the reading on battery.” I felt a little it was a little bizarre to update maps for a battery issue but I did it anyways and on the day the maps update was installed the battery was charged to 100% or 35d, on Jan 3rd. Fast forward to today Jan 8 the battery life is 11D it’s steadily losing 4 days in a single day and it’s all factory settings and pulse ox is not on all the time. Not to mention I don’t even wear it during work so it’s off for 8 hours a day… I’m extremely Disappointed over anything. I would just want to exchange this watch because I believe it’s this watch and not the product that’s is failing. Please reach out. I’m already in contact with support you can see the reference number ID per the email I’m using here.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
Thank you for your review and experience with the Enduro 3. We would like to discuss this further over email. If you would please email us at product.support@garmin.com.
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Customer Rating
5
Great Watch!
on January 14, 2025
Posted by: Enduro 3 Watch
I have had the watch for about two weeks now and I absolutely love it. The designed look great, the features are fantastic. I been working out twice a day since I got it and have yet to charge it so that’s a huge feature that helps me out on my long runs and ultras. The nylon band is also great, it doesn’t feel tight like the rubber one. When I workout with the nylon band it feels good in my wrist. I have also used my rubber bands on this watch and they work great as well.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, January 17, 2025
Thank you for your review.
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